March-April 1999 |
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Prosthetic Relief for Angolan People
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People from the Angolan villages meet with the Indian practitioners to learn how to fit and maintain te prosthetic devices. |
Sarla Lall writes about the Jaipur Foot Technology program in which the people of India are enabled through UMCOR to share a much-needed technology with the people of Angola. Landmines, planted under the soil during the civil war in Angola, explode whenever someone happens to step on them, and they have left many Angolan civilians as well as soldiers without limbs. Prosthesis-making technology developed by Dr. P. K. Sethi in India costs about $110 per artificial limb, as compared with European technology that costs $1000-$1500 per prosthesis. Lall describes the experience of the first Indian team that went to Angola, traveling to Quessua Mission Center in Melange to bring prosthetic relief to Angola's amputees.
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